I didn’t think it would be hard to write this column. Maybe that’s odd. Writing something that accurately captures what I’ve learned during my time writing for the Daily Bruin – that explains what it feels like to be here, right now, standing with one foot inside Kerckhoff 118 and the other out – probably should never have seemed easy. Read more...

Over the course of three years, I have oftentimes found myself looking down at my phone at a particular set of words: “Hey Jose, can you take a shoot?” Despite the fact that I had received the same message time and time again, from multiple editors, it never failed to evoke the feeling of déjà vu as I put the phone down. Read more...

I dread the emptiness of a blank white page and the impatience of a blinking cursor. To confront that blankness, armed with nothing but a pen or a keyboard, a mind and maybe an idea, is intimidating. Read more...

Outside the Daily Bruin’s editor in chief office hangs a black board encased within a plastic cover. During my junior year as an assistant Sports editor, our editor in chief left two words scribbled in aqua blue up on the board: Be bold. Read more...

It was 9:05 p.m. in San Jose. I was at the 2013 California College Media Association awards with the editor in chief and the campus News editor. Read more...

I must namecheck one individual in particular who is responsible for my career at the Daily Bruin: a tall, buffoonish caricature of James Bond’s dashing looks called Aren Alexander. Read more...